Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
recumbency .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being
recumbent .
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Examples
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It came with the Queen's postage from an address in Sherbrooke, and related of her recumbence there after her visit with the specialist.
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Then again, she may have actually been charmed by his recumbence.
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Then again, she may have actually been charmed by his recumbence.
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So I stepped on to the floor, reeling dizzily from my enforced recumbence, and knelt by the side of the bed.
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The consequences of these conditions must be the recumbence of the folds formed under the crust-stress, and their
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The lungs are normal, except from complications following drenching or recumbence for a long period.
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On receiving the unexpected order, Pepe rose from his habitual attitude of recumbence, stretched himself at his leisure, yawned several times, and then obeyed the summons, saying as he went out: "What the devil fancy has the captain got into his head to send for _me_?"
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He shall be his Apollo, that can give him a sufficient reason, why justifying faith should consist in recumbence [3] and reliance on Christ's merits for the pardon of sin [4] (p. 224).
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Watch them as they clasp hands and run down to the water's edge; see them prancing playfully where the waves die on the sand, while devoted swains launch the floating mattress upon which it is their custom to bask so picturesquely; see them now as they rush into the green waves and mount the softly rocking thing; observe the gleam of their white arms as, idly, they splash and paddle; note the languid grace of their recumbence: chins on hands, heels waving lazily in air; hear them squeal in inharmonious unison, as a young member of the
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Take your head away, you don't care a fig that my flowers will wear a dissipated recumbence; remember the dinner and ball. "
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